Christoph Waltz has just received his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The German-Austrian actor is a two time Oscar winner, thanks to a little help from Quentin Tarantino, whose films Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained earned Waltz accolades for both performances. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffO82xGFmZ0 “This of course is something that I, as the guy from Vienna, […]
Felicity Jones in talks to star opposite Tom Hanks in Inferno
Actress Felicity Jones is in talks to join Tom Hanks in the adaptation of the Dan Brown novel Inferno. According to Deadline the actress will star in the third adaptation of the Dan Brown book series, the first two being The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Inferno follows Harvard symbologist Professor Langdon (Hanks) […]
Protests at the Exodus: Gods and Kings world premiere over Ridley Scott’s all-white cast
The world premiere of Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings is taking place in London tonight, and it seems that someone has taken exception to Scott’s all-white cast for the biblical epic and is protesting the red carpet with a sign that reads “Egyptians were black. No more lies”… Check out the photos, taken by […]
Movie Review – Black Sea (2014)
Black Sea, 2014. Directed by Kevin Mcdonald. Starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jodie Whittaker, Karl Davies and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a […]
Movie Review – The Gambler (2014)
The Gambler. 2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard-like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students. There is such a […]
There was going to be a Batman store in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns
Holy Meta Batman! A brilliant find over at 1989Batman.com shows an unused set from Tim Burton’s Batman Returns which was – get this – a Batman store that sold merchandise from the 1989 Batman movie. Can’t get more meta than that! Here’s an excerpt from the Daniel Waters script: EXT. A STORE–EARLY EVENING OF THE CURRENT […]
Vladimir Putin busts out his dance moves in Iron Sky: The Coming Race clip
We got a barmy first trailer last month [see here], and now we have a clip from Iron Sky: The Coming Race, director Timo Vuorensola’s follow-up to his crowd-funded cult hit Iron Sky, which sees Vladimir Putin busting out his dance moves. Check it out below… Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the […]
Movie Review – The Grandmaster (2013)
The Grandmaster, 2013. Directed by Wong Kar Wai. Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen, Quinxiang Wang, Hye-Kyo Song, Shun Lao, Hoi Pang-Lo, Xiaofei Zhou and Benshan Zhao. SYNOPSIS: The poetically charged biographical story of Ip-Man, the martial arts expert and teacher , who went on to train Bruce Lee… Wong Kar Wai is a film-maker […]
Paddington topples The Hunger Games at the UK box office, Frozen re-enters the top ten
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 28th to Sunday 30th November 2014… After just one week atop the UK chart, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 has been pushed down into second place, with new release Paddington taking top spot with a solid £5,125,519 opening weekend. Despite being […]
Maisie Williams is almost a lock to play Ellie in The Last Of Us adaptation
At the moment we know very little about Sony’s planned film adaptation of their massively successful apocalyptic survival horror video game, The Last Of Us. Neil Druckmann (he also wrote the game) is still currently writing the script that we know will have some changes to it in order to fit a 15 hour game […]
